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    both males and females, though it is a rare genetic disease. Babies born with WAGR are prone to eye problems and are at an elevated risk for developing certain types of cancers. WAGR is a term which stand for both the mental and physical problems associated with this disease. •W is for Wilms’ Tumor, a common form of kidney cancer in children •A is for Aniridia, partial or complete absence of color in the eye •G is for Genitourinary problems, testicles aren’t descended or abnormal location of

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    Photodynamic therapy is most easily applied to cancers of the skin and the throat, such as basal cell carcinoma (Brown & Ibbotson, 2009, p. 252). Photodynamic therapy is also being used to treat precancerous conditions, such as carcinoma in situ and actinic keratosis (Brown & Ibbotson, 2009, p. 252). Photodynamic therapy is also often used in palliatively advanced diseases, for example, photodynamic therapy is used on advanced cases of esophageal cancers, where patients have lost the ability to eat

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    reason for saying this is because there are times, such as in the treatment of aggressive cancer, when a patient’s life may not really be prolonged by treating their cancer. Their life may be extended only a few weeks or months, but the treatments make them so sick, they do not enjoy any of the last months of their lives. I watched this happen to my mother-in-law. She had metastatic small cell lung cancer that had spread

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    Skin Cancer Symptoms

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    the symptoms of cancer are not present until the malignant tumor has spread beyond the stages at which it can be treated. This is not entirely true. Some types of cancer tend to be particularly "elusive" and do not manifest themselves in any way. However, most forms of the condition have noticeable symptoms. The problem is that they are usually similar to the ones of common and much less serious illnesses. For all this reason it is worth learning more about the most common cancer warning signs that

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    puts many poisons into ones mouth, throat, and lungs – as well as pollutes the air around the smoker making it not just bad for the smoker but also everyone else that is around them. Smokers are at high risk for heart disease, stroke, lung cancer and chronic bronchitis. According to the CDC, smoking tobacco causes over 480,000 human deaths per year in the US alone. Other forms of consuming tobacco like dipping are at a higher risk for developing mouth and throat cancer. Tobacco can

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    There are many different type of cancers, there are also many different types of treatments. One of the most known types of treatments would be chemotherapy. Chemotherapy can be used for a wide range of different types of cancers and diseases, and each of the different types of cancers or diseases require a different group, and sometimes order, of chemicals to properly treat the cancer or disease. These chemicals include: Alkylating agents, Antimetabolites, Anthracyclines, Topoisomerase inhibitors

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    Cancer in United States Cancer is one of the leading causes of death in the United States. There are a lot of different kinds of cancer. Here are the most common cancer, breast cancer, colon cancer, head and neck cancer, leukemia, lung cancer, melanoma, non-hodgkins lymphoma, ovarian cancer, prostate cancer, and rectal cancer. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A lot of cancers exist, but they all have some common characteristics

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    real bad cancer in our family. Cancer is a term used for diseases in which abnormal cells divide without control and can invade other tissues, Cancer cells can spread to other parts of the body through the blood and lymph system. Lymph is a colorless fluid containing white blood cells that bathe the tissues and drains through the lymphatic system into the bloodstream. The type of cancer we have in our family is breast cancer, prostate cancer, lung cancer, colon cancer, gynecologic cancer, brain tumor

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    watching as he winds up for the potentially winning pitch. What you don’t know is that is by the time the next baseball season rolls around, your favorite player won’t be there in person to celebrate his team’s first win of the season. The esophageal cancer that he obtained from chewing that “green-ish brown blob,” known as chewing tobacco, will be at high risk for spreading throughout his body if he does not treat it, and he can no longer play due to chemotherapy sessions that drain all of his energy

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    Cancer is the uncontrolled growth of cells that do not correctly function until it spreads to a huge amount which can cause death. Cancer is basically just the disease of genes because of how it affects one cell that multiplies until it is cured or causes the death of someone. “ Cancer is not just one disease but a group of almost one hundred different types of malignant diseases” L. Fleming Fallon and Melinda Oberleitner. Gale. (2013). In more details, Cancer is the malfunction of the genes in producing

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